Final moves to Storm Peak's summit

My partner making the last few very exposed moves onto the summit of Storm Peak after traversing the rotten knife-edge on the east ridge. The horrible quality of the rock is obvious. There is a vertical drop of several hundred feet directly to climber's left. It took us a while to get up the courage to finish the climb. Thanks to a bad case of summit fever, I remember this as the stupidest thing I did in the mountains without a rope. San Juan Mountains, Colorado. August 2008.

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i done this once, i mean without rope, with instabil rocks too, and after i remain with a piece of rock in my hand (thanks God my foots stayed good) i said wow i will never do this again but we had a rope to us cuz without was impossible to descend and we start to use it :). Cheers and happy and safetly ;) climbs!!! Andreea

I climb solid stuff too, trust me! My goal of climbing all 584 of Colorado's 13ers requires getting used to crappy rock. 250 of those peaks are in the San Juan Range, notorious for rock like this. A friend once joked that my idea of a great rock climbing gym would be a room with all of the holds thrown into a jumble in the middle, attached to nothing :)